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STEP-BY-STEP
GRAPE LEAF & GREEN GRAPES
CUTTING BOARD, JALAPENO, CHEESE & CHEESE KNIFE STEP 1 STEP 2
STEP 3 STEP 4
each grape are Burnt Umber. Add a wash of Burnt Umber to the small gaps where the background shows through.
CUTTING BOARD
STEP 1: Basecoat the cutting board with Burnt Sienna. Let dry. Using white graphite, trace the lines on for the wood grain, the cheese, and the apple knife.
STEP 2: Using a no. 10/0 liner or no. 1 script liner, apply thinned Burnt Umber to the wood grain lines.
Don’t worry if the lines don’t follow the pattern. When the Burnt Umber is dry, erase the graphite lines.
STEP 3: Randomly apply floated Burnt Umber shading on the wood grain lines. Don’t shade every line.
STEP 4: With Burnt Umber, float shading all around the outer edges. With Snow White, add dry brushed high- lights as shown.
JALAPENO AND CHEESE ON CUTTING BOARD
STEP 1: Basecoat the cheese with Buttermilk. Shade all around each slice with floated Camel.
STEP 2: With Honey Brown, add the deeper shading where one slice extends over another and blend well. STEP 3: Line the slices with thinned Honey Brown and highlight the tops with floated Snow White.
STEP 4: Using a no. 10/0 liner, add little peppers to the cheese in colors of Country Red, Hauser Dark Green, and Irish Moss. With floated Burnt Umber, shade behind the cheese on the board and under the knife blade.
ACRYLIC
STEP 1
STEP 3
GRAPE LEAF
STEP 2
STEP 4
STEP 1: Basecoat the leaf Hauser Medium Green. Trace on the pattern with white graphite. Shade at the base and under the grapes on the leaf with Hauser Dark Green. Add the branch with Burnt Umber.
STEP 2: Highlight with floated Margarita above the center vein line and along the outer edges. Using Hauser Dark Green, add the vine.
STEP 3: Using the no. 10/0 liner, apply the vein lines with thinned Margarita.
STEP 4: Paint stem Burnt Umber and pull this same color into the center vein. The vine is Hauser Dark Green with thin lines of Margarita. Mix a little Snow White and Burnt Umber together to do details and line the branch.
GREEN GRAPES
STEP 1: Basecoat the grapes with Green Tea. Wash the grapes with Margarita. Let dry. Trace on the pattern for the grapes and the branches.
STEP 2: With Margarita+tch Irish Moss, shade around the inside of each grape and where one rests on another. STEP 3: Deepen the crevices where one rests on another with a little more Irish Moss in the Margarita mix and on the outer edges of some.
STEP 4: Highlight the grapes with floated Snow White. Dry-brush a highlight on each grape. Using the no. 10/0 liner brush tip, add a tiny white dot in the center of the dry-brushing. The branches attaching into the hole in
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